How Baseball Taught a Future Hotel COO Time Management and Hospitality - Ryan Magnon, Ithaka Hospitality Partners

Hospitality Daily Podcast · Nov 17, 2025 · 11m

Ryan Magnon, Chief Operating Officer at Ithaka Hospitality Partners, shares how his early experience as a bat boy for the Atlanta Braves shaped his approach to hospitality and time management. He explains how serving players taught him the fundamentals of anticipating needs, managing time with intention, and developing habits of personal excellence long before he entered the hotel business. This episode explores how those lessons still inform his leadership today and why they matter for anyone operating in hospitality.

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